Standard Newsweek articles (not including editorials or op-eds) are supposed to appear “fair and balanced” on the surface. They are also HEAVILY edited — material is deleted, sentences are rearranged, descriptive adjectives are removed. The editors choose the title and subtitles. The articles also need to be lively with lots of vivid images and metaphors — otherwise, forget about being published. And if it doesn’t sound like a breathtaking new breakthrough — forget about being published. And if you make a fuss about how your prose has been mangled — forget about being published.

Authors are not allowed to express their views explicitly in their own voice, but views can be slipped in through quotes and subtext — Collins and Kass, who hold a belief in Judeo-Christian “dogma,” are in a “minority.” Their quotes show how ignorant or out of touch they are with current advances in biotechnology. The Pope and Greenpeace were purposely paired up to make people understand that their fears and anger emanate from a common belief in a transcendent entity (God or Mother Nature) who they think should rightly rule the earth and its creatures. And in the final quote that ended the article, Jim Watson says – in the subtext – that there is no such thing as God. It should be obvious to fellow rationalists that the author has reached the same conclusion.